Subj : Electronic publishing FDN welcomes your submissions To : ep-fdn coordinator From : Russell Tiedt Date : Fri Dec 07 2007 07:00 am Hello ep-fdn. 06 Dec 07 05:47, you wrote to all: Well firstly by excluding pdf, you are hampering your efforts togain content, as most people release stuf in PDF format, due to their perception, that this is the "defacto" format for electronic publishing, i.e. you are shooting yourself in the foot so to say ... , or both feet ... Secondly Linux has a very good version of Acrobat Reader which is free on all platforms, currently using Ubuntu .... Am going to try and get copies of the files for this area mentioned below, but I have the Gutenburg project on DVD, but the files are named crypticly, and designed to be acsessed via a web-site, so a serious search and rename operation would be required. I have a number of novels of which there are "free" versions, but they are mixed in with pay versions, I index and store according to subject/authour and not the lisence used for distribution, and I am not going to check 10 gig's worth of files for their suitability for distrabution, and most of these are in PDF format any how, which gives me less reason to bother ... About the only thing that as I see it is distributable via you setup is Linux/FreeBSD documentation, and material which is now beginning to be released under one or other form of the creative commons lisence - severely limiting any content you might get ... Just my comments ... ec> I thought I'd take this opportunity to formally introduce the ec> electronic publishing file distribution network to the fidonet ec> community. THough an article about it authored by yours truly was ec> published in fidonews many may not have seen it. ec> so far the only traffic in this file echo has been that which I ec> generated myself. Obviously, we're looking for contributions from the ec> sysops and users out there in fidoland. You can see epsubmit.zip ec> from the administrative area, ep-adm for complete guidelines on file ec> submissions. ec> AS you peruse the submission guidelines you'll note that I will not ec> release pdf files into any of the ep-fdn echoes. there is no way that ec> I can guarantee the legality of hatching such files, therefore I won't ec> take pdf files for distribution under any circumstances. Another ec> willing soul out there might wish to start an fdn or two for materials ec> in pdf format. However, ep-fdn cannot accept pdf files for ec> distribution. I have no way of reading them even were I to acquire ec> acrobat reader for linux due to some technical barriers related to ec> blindness and inherent in the pdf format itself. ec> AS we must not violate international copyright rules and the various ec> laws governing intellectual property throughout the world we ask that ec> you read and comply with the submission guidelines contained in ec> epsubmit.zip. IF there is a problem complying with them but you feel ec> that a book or periodical would be of interest to the fido community, ec> and it can be legally distributed in this manner contact me and we'll ec> see what can be worked out. ec> Regards, ec> Richard ec> --- timEd 1.10.y2k+ ec> * Origin: Radio REscue net operations BBS (1:116/901) Russell --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5 * Origin: Rusty's BBS - Bloemfontein, Free State, ZA (5:7105/1) .